Witness History: Witness Archive 2015
By BBC World Service
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History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2015.
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Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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The Millennium Bug
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Dec 31, 2015 |
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The Poster Boy for the Communist System
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Dec 30, 2015 |
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Rasputin
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Dec 29, 2015 |
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The Donner Party
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Dec 28, 2015 |
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The Beagle 2 Mission to Mars
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Dec 25, 2015 |
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It's a Wonderful Life
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Dec 24, 2015 |
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Michael Jackson's Thriller
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Dec 23, 2015 |
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
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Dec 22, 2015 |
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The Death of General Patton
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Dec 21, 2015 |
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India Disability Rights
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Dec 18, 2015 |
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Star Wars: C3PO's Story
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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The Rubik's Cube
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Dec 16, 2015 |
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A Pakistani View of the Bangladesh War of Independence
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Dec 15, 2015 |
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The 1960 Coup Against Haile Selassie
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Dec 14, 2015 |
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The Velvet Underground
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Dec 11, 2015 |
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The KKK and the Killing of Viola Liuzzo
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Dec 10, 2015 |
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The Battle of Tora Bora
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Dec 09, 2015 |
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WW1: The Siege of Kut, Iraq
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Dec 08, 2015 |
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Cuban Fighters in Angola
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Dec 04, 2015 |
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The First Heart Transplant
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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Surviving Pearl Harbor
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Dec 02, 2015 |
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The Bari Raid 1943
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Dec 01, 2015 |
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Nigeria's "War Against Indiscipline"
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Nov 30, 2015 |
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Surviving Ravensbruck
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Nov 26, 2015 |
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Britain's Palestine Patrols
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Nov 26, 2015 |
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Cuba's 'Special Period'
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Nov 25, 2015 |
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The DB Cooper Mystery
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Nov 23, 2015 |
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Attack on the US Embassy in Islamabad
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Nov 20, 2015 |
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The CIA's Cultural War: how the CIA secretly funded the magazine Encounter
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Nov 19, 2015 |
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Fear of Flying: The Best Selling Book About Sex, Creativity And Love
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Nov 18, 2015 |
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Fire: Bollywood Explores Lesbian Love
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Nov 17, 2015 |
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Kenya’s Torture Chambers
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Nov 16, 2015 |
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The Fall of the Taliban
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Nov 13, 2015 |
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East Timor Massacre
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Nov 12, 2015 |
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Romany: Pioneer Wildlife Broadcaster
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Nov 11, 2015 |
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India Anti-Sikh Riots
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Nov 10, 2015 |
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The Amman Bombings
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Nov 09, 2015 |
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The Green March
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Nov 06, 2015 |
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The Russian Revolution: Alexander Kerensky
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Nov 06, 2015 |
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The Battle of El Alamein
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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Britain's Executioner - Albert Pierrepoint
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Nov 03, 2015 |
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The Jarrow Crusade
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Nov 02, 2015 |
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A Jewish Homeland in Siberia
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Oct 30, 2015 |
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The Great Depression: Harry Leslie Smith Remembers
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Oct 29, 2015 |
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The First Lady of Cuban Ballet
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Oct 28, 2015 |
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The Nuclear Spy Alan Nunn May
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Oct 27, 2015 |
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The birth of the United Nations
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Oct 24, 2015 |
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Iceland's Women Strike
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Oct 23, 2015 |
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Sri Lanka Killings
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Oct 22, 2015 |
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The Disappearing Sea
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Oct 21, 2015 |
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The Controversial 'God of Vengeance'
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Oct 20, 2015 |
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Mass Graves in Hue, Vietnam
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Oct 19, 2015 |
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The October Crisis in Canada
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Oct 16, 2015 |
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Satyajit Ray: Working with India’s Cinematic Master
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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Danish Jews Escape the Holocaust
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Oct 14, 2015 |
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The White Russians in Shanghai
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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The Death of Edith Cavell
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Oct 12, 2015 |
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The Moors Murders
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Oct 09, 2015 |
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Pakistan Earthquake 2005
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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The Assassination of Anwar Sadat
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Oct 07, 2015 |
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Austrian Wine Scandal
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Oct 06, 2015 |
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Barbary Pirates and the White Slave Trade
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Oct 05, 2015 |
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The Death of Rock Hudson
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Oct 02, 2015 |
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Danish Cartoons
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Oct 01, 2015 |
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Buena Vista Social Club
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Sep 30, 2015 |
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The Birth of Karaoke
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Sep 29, 2015 |
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Kabul Musicians' Quarter
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Sep 28, 2015 |
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The Plastic People of the Universe
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Sep 25, 2015 |
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Jacques Brel
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of Hip Hop
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Sep 22, 2015 |
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The Origins of Ska Music
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Sep 21, 2015 |
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The Leningrad Symphony
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Sep 18, 2015 |
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The First Glastonbury Festival
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Sep 17, 2015 |
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Musicians of the Iranian Revolution
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Sep 16, 2015 |
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Miriam Makeba
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Sep 15, 2015 |
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Willie Nelson's Farm Aid
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Sep 14, 2015 |
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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Sep 11, 2015 |
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The Monkees
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Sep 10, 2015 |
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Umm Kulthum
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Sep 09, 2015 |
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Noel Coward Plays Vegas
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Sep 08, 2015 |
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The King of Highlife
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Sep 07, 2015 |
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The Heyday of Somali Music
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Sep 03, 2015 |
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Russia's First DJ
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Sep 02, 2015 |
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The Auschwitz Cellist
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Aug 29, 2015 |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Aug 28, 2015 |
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The Guinness Book of Records
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Aug 27, 2015 |
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Latinos Protest Against Vietnam
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Aug 26, 2015 |
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The Assassination of Benigno Aquino
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Aug 25, 2015 |
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Mass Executions in Iran
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Aug 24, 2015 |
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A Bizarre Poisoning Plot in Oregon
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Aug 21, 2015 |
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Aug 20, 2015 |
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The Assassination of Leon Trotsky
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Aug 19, 2015 |
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The Dieppe Raid
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Aug 18, 2015 |
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The Tolpuddle Martyrs
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Aug 17, 2015 |
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Korea Divided
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Aug 14, 2015 |
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Child Prisoners of the Japanese
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Aug 13, 2015 |
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The Man Who Published Harry Potter
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Aug 12, 2015 |
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Devil's Island
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Aug 11, 2015 |
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The World's Most Valuable T-Rex
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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The Great Iraqi Defection
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Aug 07, 2015 |
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Singapore Independence
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Aug 06, 2015 |
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The Bombing of Hiroshima
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Aug 05, 2015 |
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The Plot to Kill Iranian Writers
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Aug 04, 2015 |
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Afghanistan's First Coup
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Aug 03, 2015 |
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First Cochlear Implant
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Aug 03, 2015 |
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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
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Jul 30, 2015 |
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First Inter-racial Kiss on TV
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Jul 29, 2015 |
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Scouts in the Warsaw Uprising
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Jul 28, 2015 |
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Chilean Students Set on Fire
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Jul 27, 2015 |
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Britain's Landslide 1945 Election
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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The Tulia Drug Bust
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Jul 23, 2015 |
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Tehran's Red Light District
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Jul 22, 2015 |
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CIA Mind Control Experiments
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Jul 20, 2015 |
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Ghiggia: Uruguay’s World Cup Hero
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Jul 20, 2015 |
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The Manhattan Project
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Jul 17, 2015 |
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Poison Gas in WW1
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Jul 15, 2015 |
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Marie Curie
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Jul 14, 2015 |
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The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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Jul 13, 2015 |
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The Death of MKO Abiola
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Jul 10, 2015 |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Jul 09, 2015 |
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Tamil Doctors and the Sri Lankan War
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Jul 08, 2015 |
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Escape from the KGB
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Jul 07, 2015 |
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The Death of General Sani Abacha
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Jul 07, 2015 |
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German Re-Armament
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Jul 03, 2015 |
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The Filming of Jaws
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Jul 02, 2015 |
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Red Cross Visits Nazi Concentration Camp
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Jul 02, 2015 |
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The Berlin Love Parade
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Jul 01, 2015 |
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Helen Keller
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Save the Whale
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Jun 26, 2015 |
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James Salter: Writer and Pilot
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Jun 24, 2015 |
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Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR
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Jun 24, 2015 |
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Air India Flight 182
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Jun 23, 2015 |
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Britain's First Black Woman MP
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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The Six Day War: A Jewish view
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Jun 19, 2015 |
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Iran's Cultural Revolution
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Jun 18, 2015 |
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Inter-racial Marriage in South Africa
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Jun 16, 2015 |
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Flying to Freedom
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Jun 15, 2015 |
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The Six Day War: A Palestinian view
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Jun 12, 2015 |
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The Death of Walter Rodney
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Jun 11, 2015 |
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Denmark's Inuit Experiment
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Jun 10, 2015 |
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A Cure for Tuberculosis
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Jun 09, 2015 |
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Refugee Boat Tragedy
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Jun 09, 2015 |
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Women's Institute at 100
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Jun 08, 2015 |
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Britain's first referendum on Europe
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Jun 05, 2015 |
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The Eichmann Tapes
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Jun 04, 2015 |
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The Death of Ayatollah Khomeini
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Jun 03, 2015 |
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The Golden Gate Bridge
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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The Burning of the Jaffna Public Library
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Jun 01, 2015 |
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The Heysel Stadium Disaster
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May 29, 2015 |
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The Welsh in Patagonia
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May 28, 2015 |
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Protect and Survive
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May 27, 2015 |
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Dorothy Mulkey - US Fair Housing Campaigner
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May 26, 2015 |
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Italy in World War One
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May 25, 2015 |
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Archbishop Romero of San Salvador
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May 22, 2015 |
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Bob Marley's Funeral
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May 21, 2015 |
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A Coup in Fiji
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May 20, 2015 |
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Lawrence of Arabia
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May 19, 2015 |
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The Elephant Man
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May 18, 2015 |
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The Building of Kariba Dam
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May 15, 2015 |
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Kermit the Frog
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May 14, 2015 |
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The Andijan Massacre
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May 13, 2015 |
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The Church of the Nativity siege
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May 12, 2015 |
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India's Billionth Baby
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May 11, 2015 |
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VE Day
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May 08, 2015 |
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The Sinking of the Lusitania
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May 07, 2015 |
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Aden's Independence Struggle
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May 06, 2015 |
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Chemical Weapons Tests at Porton Down
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May 05, 2015 |
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The Iranian Embassy Siege
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May 04, 2015 |
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US Evacuation from Saigon
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May 01, 2015 |
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The Man Who Removed His Own Appendix
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Apr 30, 2015 |
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President de Gaulle resigns
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Apr 29, 2015 |
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The Jane Fonda Workout
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Apr 28, 2015 |
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The Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout
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Apr 27, 2015 |
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The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission
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Apr 24, 2015 |
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The Hunt for Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Apr 23, 2015 |
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NATO bombs Serbian TV
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Apr 22, 2015 |
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The Death of Einstein
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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Carousel - The Musical
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Apr 20, 2015 |
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Oklahoma City Bombing
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Apr 17, 2015 |
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Joe Orton
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Apr 16, 2015 |
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Bloods and Crips truce
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Apr 15, 2015 |
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Train puts Letchworth Garden City on the Map
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Apr 14, 2015 |
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The Khmer Rouge take power
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Apr 13, 2015 |
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Glenn Gould Retires
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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The ‘Death of a Princess’ film
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Apr 09, 2015 |
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India's State of Emergency
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Apr 08, 2015 |
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The Fall of Idi Amin
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Apr 07, 2015 |
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The Marshall Plan
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Apr 03, 2015 |
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Tenerife Air Crash
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Apr 02, 2015 |
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1943 Bengal Famine
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Apr 01, 2015 |
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Unearthing the Terracotta Army
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Mar 31, 2015 |
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Ireland Smoking Ban
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Mar 30, 2015 |
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The Beeching Report
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Mar 26, 2015 |
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The John and Yoko Bed-in
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Mar 25, 2015 |
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The Invention of the Black Box
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Mar 23, 2015 |
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Algeria's War of Independence
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Escape from East Berlin
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Mar 19, 2015 |
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Golda Meir
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Mar 18, 2015 |
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The Biggest Art Heist in US History
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Mar 17, 2015 |
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British Theatre Trial
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Mar 16, 2015 |
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Aristotle Onassis and Jackie Kennedy
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Mar 13, 2015 |
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Suite Francaise
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Mar 12, 2015 |
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Kosovo Killings
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Mar 11, 2015 |
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The Mysterious Death of an MP in Kenya
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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Alexander McQueen
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Mar 09, 2015 |
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The German Invasion of Czechoslovakia
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Mar 06, 2015 |
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Stalin's Interpreter
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Mar 05, 2015 |
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The Man who Changed Parenting
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Mar 04, 2015 |
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Britain's First Commercial Surrogate Mother
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Mar 03, 2015 |
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The Sound of Music
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Mar 02, 2015 |
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The Highway of Death
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Feb 27, 2015 |
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The Battle of Iwo Jima
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Feb 26, 2015 |
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Spanish Coup Attempt
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Feb 25, 2015 |
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The Looting of the Benin Bronzes
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Feb 24, 2015 |
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Aldrich Ames CIA Traitor
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Feb 23, 2015 |
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Saturday Night Fever
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Feb 20, 2015 |
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Larnaca Airport Shootout
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Feb 19, 2015 |
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The Murder of Daniel Pearl
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Feb 18, 2015 |
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The Murder of Archbishop Janani Luwum
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Feb 17, 2015 |
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Martha Gellhorn
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Feb 16, 2015 |
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Aung San
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Feb 13, 2015 |
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The Bombing of Dresden
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Feb 12, 2015 |
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Minamata Mercury Poisoning
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Feb 11, 2015 |
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Finland’s Winter War
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Feb 10, 2015 |
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Sophiatown Removals
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Feb 09, 2015 |
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The Conflict is Over
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Feb 06, 2015 |
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The Greensboro Sit-In
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Feb 05, 2015 |
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McDonald's in Moscow
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Feb 04, 2015 |
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The Atomic Spy
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Feb 03, 2015 |
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Bertrand Russell
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Feb 02, 2015 |
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The Family Doctor Turned Murderer
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Jan 30, 2015 |
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Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
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Jan 29, 2015 |
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Greenland nuclear bomber crash
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Jan 28, 2015 |
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Auschwitz Train Escape
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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Fleeing the Spanish Civil War
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Jan 26, 2015 |
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Patrice Lumumba
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Jan 23, 2015 |
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The Death of Al Capone
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Jan 22, 2015 |
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US Drone Operator
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Jan 21, 2015 |
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The rise of England's football hooligans
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Jan 20, 2015 |
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Zeppelins Attack England
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Jan 19, 2015 |
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The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
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Jan 16, 2015 |
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The Life and Death of Agatha Christie
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Jan 15, 2015 |
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India's First Call Centre
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Jan 14, 2015 |
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India Bans Widow Burning
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Jan 13, 2015 |
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Somalia's Rural Literacy Campaign
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Jan 12, 2015 |
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The Opening of Guantanamo
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Jan 09, 2015 |
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South Asia's top Hindi music show
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Jan 08, 2015 |
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The Impeachment of Bill Clinton
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Jan 07, 2015 |
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Evidence of the Big Bang
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Jan 06, 2015 |
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The Prague Spring
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Jan 05, 2015 |
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WW1 Survivors Drowned on Way Home
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Jan 02, 2015 |
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First Episode of Mr Bean
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Jan 01, 2015 |
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Grand Theft Auto
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Dec 25, 2013 |